karienbez

So much of life is not what happens but how you respond. The story here is less about exposing Meta management's past, and rather about showing them up for continuing the trajectory of malicious behaviour.
https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext/careless-people-meta-mark-zuckerberg/

Report from Mozilla and co on the intersection of open and AI
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/new-framework-for-ai-openness-and-innovation/

Julian Assange released from prison, WikiLeaks says, after striking deal with US justice department
https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/25/julian-assange-plea-deal-with-us-free-to-return-australia

Labeling is better than nothing. How else would we know? https://boingboing.net/2024/03/19/youtube-requires-realistic-ai-to-be-labeled.html

For what it's worth
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/09/hbo-bitcoin-documentary-claims-to-unmask-satoshi-nakamoto.html
Is it/why is it important to know who Satoshi Nakamoto is, and/or who started Bitcoin?

The neutrality of academic institutions is essential, as is the freedom of academics and students not to be. https://boingboing.net/2024/06/01/harvard-university-will-no-longer-issue-official-statements-on-public-matters-unrelated-to-its-academic-core.html What does it mean for other types of orgs making pronouncements about issues outside their scope of business?

I find this interesting. Does it matter? Clearly. But why? If one cannot distinguish between one made in 2016 and one made in 2018, or between one made by "the artist" or on the artist's instruction... Is it about a lie? Are those less valuable now? Are we upset that he commercialised his works and his process to such an extent?
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/22/damien-hirst-artworks-painted-years-later-currency-artist (1/2)

New Harvest (https://new-harvest.org/)
and Amii recently released a review on the application of machine learning in cultured meat (https://zenodo.org/records/11193570). They outlined challenges in the development of cultured meat that machine learning is well suited to solve. (1/2)

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